the frequency of fungal infections in immunocompromised patients, particularly by candida species, has increased in recent years. colonization by candida species in respiratory tract in susceptible hosts may play an important role to precede disseminated candidiasis. this study was designed to identify candida species from bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) samples and determination of antifungal sus...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to establish Raman signatures from pure cultures of different Candida species using Raman Spectroscopy (RS) and use these signatures for rapid identification of unknown Candida species. METHODS Pure cultures of five Candida species were evaluated using RS to build a limited signature library. 'Raman Processing' (RP) software was used for Principal Com...

High vaginal swabs (HVS) obtained from 500 volunteers in Edo State, Nigeria which comprised 394 contraceptive users and 106 non-contraceptive users were screened for the prevalence of Candida species using standard procedures. Results revealed the isolation of Candida species in 246 of volunteers. These included Candida albicans 174 (38.4%), Candida pseudotropicalis 20 (4%), Candida stellatoide...

As candidosis incidence continue to rise, quick laboratory identification of Candida species is becoming increasingly important for a growing population of patients at-risk. RAPD techniques were used on samples of Candida obtained from patients hospitalized at Santa Casa de Misericordia in Belo Horizonte (SCMBH) Brazil, from March 1998 to December 2000 and then compared with the results of phen...

Candida species are the fourth most frequent cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections, and 25%-50% occur in critical care units. During an 18-month prospective study period, all patients admitted for > or = 72 hours to the surgical (SICUs) or neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at each of the participant institutions were followed daily. Among 4,276 patients admitted to the seven SICUs in s...

candida is an asexual, diploid, dimorphic fungus that is present on human body and his environment. nowadays the number of patients, who are immunocompromised, aged, receiving prolonged antibacterial and aggressive cancer chemotherapy or undergoing invasive surgical procedures and organ transplantation, is on increase, and therefore candidiasis emerged itself as an alarming opportunistic diseas...

  Candida is an asexual, diploid, dimorphic fungus that is present on human body and his environment. Nowadays the number of patients, who are immunocompromised, aged, receiving prolonged antibacterial and aggressive cancer chemotherapy or undergoing invasive surgical procedures and organ transplantation, is on increase, and therefore candidiasis emerged itself as an alarming opportunistic dise...

Background and Purpose: Candida dubliniensis is closely related to the most pathogenic and prevalent yeast, namely C. albicans. Candida species can opportunistically overgrow in vulnerable individuals and cause a variety of diseases. The current study aimed to identify and isolate C. dubliniensis species present in the Candida albicans species complex identified in the oral cavity of drug abuse...

conclusions the results of antifungal susceptibility tests demonstrated that voriconazole was the most active drug against candida isolates. candida albicans is the most common yeast isolated from human blood world-wide; the unexpectedly higher rate of c. parapsilosis isolated in this study necessitates more studies with larger sample sizes in iran. results candida parapsilosis (c. parapsilosis...